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Jew Süss (1934)

Jew Süss (1934)

Drama Romance History
Release Date: 1934, October 13
Directors: Lothar Mendes
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Conrad Veidt, Benita Hume, Paul Graetz, Frank Vosper, Gerald du Maurier

Overview:

A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life in the 18th-century Jewish ghetto of Württemberg. Süss works himself out of the ghetto and into a position of power with the help of an evil duke.

Keywords:

based on novel or book antisemitism